Hydrostatic in multisurf

Discussion in 'Software' started by haroldaguirre, Jan 9, 2017.

  1. haroldaguirre
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    haroldaguirre New Member

    Hello, i'm new using multisurf i want to design a boat and obtain the hydrostatic data, but i don't know how to do it, i design the boat using rule surface but isee that need the view offset to use the hydro component. Also i made the model in solidworks, multisurf have integration with this but this neither work to the offsets view. I don't know much about the offsets and this program so any kind of help will be appreciate. Sorry for my bad english and Thank you very much.:D
     
  2. tspeer
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    tspeer Senior Member

    There's a hydrostatics function in Multisurf that you can call from Excel. Here's some VBA code that will exercise Multisurf's hydrostatics function and bring the data into Excel so you can work with it further:
     
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